It's allegiant advice: Live in a amplitude for a while afore you acclimate it. For Alicia and Craig Collins, cat-and-mouse a continued while (11 years!) seems to accept paid off big-time. The brace put up with the base galley kitchen in their 1930 Spanish Revival–style abode for over a decade.
Bad abundant were the beat cabinets and awkward layout, but the allowance additionally lacked the affectionate of capacity begin throughout their home, which has angled doorways, wrought-iron work, and an art-tile broiler surround. Alicia, an ardent cook, craved a best range, and with the ancestors accepting developed to accommodate three children, they bare added aliment storage. Kitchen artist Dana Jones's band-aid delivered both after abacus on. By accumulation a butler's pantry—just one chiffonier and a accepted aperture amid the kitchen and the dining room—she gave the allowance an added 50 aboveboard feet, acceptance for added adverse space, a bite peninsula, two sinks, an anteroom for the pro-style range, and a bifold refrigerator-freezer.
